Tal, Smadar
Tikhonov, Evgenii
Aroch, Itamar
Hefetz, Lior
Turjeman, Sondra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5224-1215
Koren, Omry
Kuzi, Sharon http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7130-1706
Article History
Received: 8 November 2020
Accepted: 20 May 2021
First Online: 23 June 2021
Competing interests
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. O.K. is an Associate Editor at npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. O.K. was not involved in the journal’s review of this manuscript, nor in decisions related to it.
: This prospective, observational study was approved by the institutional ethical committee (approval # KSVM-VTH/18_2017) and conducted during years 2018–2019.
: The study included pure-bred dams, whelping naturally or by Cesarean delivery and their puppies, recruited with their owners’ signed consent.